Egypt's family activities are pyramid-centred and Nile-shaped in a way that gives children access to one of the ancient world's most recognisable civilisations. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo's Tutankhamun galleries — 3,500 objects from the intact tomb, including the gold death mask at eye level — is a museum experience that children understand as treasure in the most literal sense and that adults find as overwhelming as they did when young. The Great Sphinx viewed at sunrise, with the Khafre pyramid behind it and the plateau still quiet, is a scale experience impossible to prepare children for from photographs. The Luxor hot air balloon over the west bank temples at dawn, when the Colossi of Memnon and the Ramesseum are visible below, gives older children and parents an aerial perspective on ancient architecture. The felucca sailing trip on the Nile between Aswan and Kom Ombo gives families a river pace specific to Egypt's great waterway.